the example that comes to mind is my colleague john dickerson asking president bush 43 if there was a moment that he wished he could live over or his worst moment. and bush had to think about it. too bad we don't have the clip. he stopped. he thought. he said i wish you would have given me that question in fans, so we could have thought about it. those unthought-out questions sometimes produce the best answers. host: richard from indiana. caller: he just entered his second term, and all presidents have a number of people they reward, their contribute tores -- contributors to presidential appointment positions. i've been in the government a while, and i have seen a lot of them that come in -- it is a little embarrassing. if you are trying to save some money, you have already got those government employees all over the different departments, but when they reserve them for presidential appointees, it those -- shows a lot of incompetence. can you comment on that? guest: sure. what you are saying is basically true, but presidential appointees are often big contributors, and they want to be